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2 Novels by Shimazaki Tōson, William E. Naff (translator)
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Overview: Shimazaki Tōson was a Japanese writer active in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. Tōson began his career as a poet, but went on to establish himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. His first novel, The Broken Commandment (1906), is regarded as the first Japanese naturalist novel. His later novels (including Before the Dawn, 1935), were all autobiographical in character. Tōson’s fiction highlighted the conflict between old and new values as Japan entered a period of aggressive modernization after the Meiji Restoration. While many Japanese writers superficially adopted Western literary styles without connecting them to a genuine message, Tōson succeeded in using naturalism and everyday, modern language to convey the contradictions and nuances of Japanese experience.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
• Chikuma River Sketches
Shimazaki Toson’s portrayals of Japanese provincial life at the turn of the century are rewarding at whatever level they may be approached. Delightful as belles lettres, they are also informative as history and ethnography. In these sketches from life in Komoro and the surrounding countryside, Toson has provided vivid and lasting impressions of the way in which the timeless and universal human questions manifested themselves at this stage of the history of this once-remote mountain town. At the same time, he has documented some of the assets and liabilities not only of Japanese rural life at the beginning of this century, but also of rural life anywhere at any time.
• Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn recounts the turmoil, the tragedy, the dislocations, and the spiritual and intellectual adventure of life as Japan entered the modern world. Shimazaki Tōson anchors his vision of the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the harsh and rugged beauty of the Kiso district of central Japan, focusing on the life of the great highway that runs through it, on the people of the village of Magome that had been founded by one of his ancestors, and on the life of Aoyama Hanzō, a character closely modeled after his own father. Based on scrupulous historical research, it answers the questions that would have been asked long ago if only the world had known enough to ask: What did the great human cost of the Meiji Restoration mean to individual lives?
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Overview: Shimazaki Tōson was a Japanese writer active in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. Tōson began his career as a poet, but went on to establish himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. His first novel, The Broken Commandment (1906), is regarded as the first Japanese naturalist novel. His later novels (including Before the Dawn, 1935), were all autobiographical in character. Tōson’s fiction highlighted the conflict between old and new values as Japan entered a period of aggressive modernization after the Meiji Restoration. While many Japanese writers superficially adopted Western literary styles without connecting them to a genuine message, Tōson succeeded in using naturalism and everyday, modern language to convey the contradictions and nuances of Japanese experience.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
• Chikuma River Sketches
Shimazaki Toson’s portrayals of Japanese provincial life at the turn of the century are rewarding at whatever level they may be approached. Delightful as belles lettres, they are also informative as history and ethnography. In these sketches from life in Komoro and the surrounding countryside, Toson has provided vivid and lasting impressions of the way in which the timeless and universal human questions manifested themselves at this stage of the history of this once-remote mountain town. At the same time, he has documented some of the assets and liabilities not only of Japanese rural life at the beginning of this century, but also of rural life anywhere at any time.
• Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn recounts the turmoil, the tragedy, the dislocations, and the spiritual and intellectual adventure of life as Japan entered the modern world. Shimazaki Tōson anchors his vision of the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the harsh and rugged beauty of the Kiso district of central Japan, focusing on the life of the great highway that runs through it, on the people of the village of Magome that had been founded by one of his ancestors, and on the life of Aoyama Hanzō, a character closely modeled after his own father. Based on scrupulous historical research, it answers the questions that would have been asked long ago if only the world had known enough to ask: What did the great human cost of the Meiji Restoration mean to individual lives?
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